Valuing health care : costs, benefits, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies / edited by Frank A. Sloan.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

1st paperback ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-267) and index

Evidence of effectiveness: evaluating its quality / Allan S. Detsky -- Utility assessment for estimating quality-adjusted life years / Robert M. Kaplan -- Measuring costs / David Dranove -- From cost-effectiveness ratios to resource allocation: where to draw the line? / Milton C. Weinstein -- Valuing health care benefits in money terms / Mark V. Pauly -- Discounting health effects for medical decisions / W. Kip Visusi -- Statistical issues in cost-effectiveness analyses / John Mullahy, Willard Manning -- Decision trees and Markov models in cost-effectiveness research / Emmett Keeler

The use of cost-effectiveness/cost-benefit analysis in actual decision making: current status and prospects / Frank A. Sloan, Christopher J. Conover.